British Orienteering

GB Selection Announcement World Cup 1 and World University Championships

22 April 2022

World Cup 1 - the 2022 international season begins!

British Orienteering is delighted to announce the athletes selected to represent Great Britain at World Cup 1 in Sweden from 26-29 May.

This is a sprint-only World Cup (ahead of the first-ever Sprint World Championships in Denmark from 26-30 June) with Individual Sprint, Knock-Out Sprint, and Mixed Sprint Relay as the disciplines being contested.

British Orienteering will field a strong team with six men and six women in each of Individual Sprint and KO Sprint, and three teams in the Mixed Sprint Relay.

MEN

Individual Sprint

KO Sprint

Mixed Sprint Relay

Alexander Chepelin

 

reserve

 

Jonathan Crickmore

 

 

 

Will Gardner

reserve

 

 

Kris Jones

 

 

 

Nathan Lawson

 

 

reserve

Chris Smithard

 

 

 

Ralph Street

 

 

 

 

WOMEN

Individual Sprint

KO Sprint

Mixed Sprint Relay

Cecilie Andersen

 

 

 

Fiona Bunn

 

 

 

Megan Carter-Davies

 

 

 

Alice Leake

 

 

 

Grace Molloy

 

 

 

Charlotte Ward

 

 

 

The support staff travelling with the team will be Lasse Grøn, Jo Stevenson, Murray Strain, and Emil Wingstedt.

The competition website is here https://owc2022boras.se/start/, and it will be possible to follow the races via Web TV, live GPS, and live results. 

 

World University Orienteering Championships – the first since 2018!

After the cancellation of this biennial competition in 2020, this year’s edition in Switzerland will be the first of these championships since 2018. 

Each nation is able to send a team of up to six athletes in total, with four spots available in each individual discipline of Sprint/Long/Middle, one team in Mixed Sprint Relay, and two teams in each Forest Relay.

British Orienteering will be sending a full team of twelve athletes and would like to congratulate all those named to the team today.  The final allocation of athletes to disciplines will be confirmed nearer the time but the intention is that each athlete will run in at least one relay and at least one individual discipline. The full team is...

Men

Women

James Ackland

Cecilie Andersen

Matthew Gooch

Rachel Brown

Flurry Grierson

Fiona Bunn

Peter Molloy

Laura King

Alastair Thomas

Grace Molloy

Thomas Wilson

Chloe Potter

The non-travelling reserves are Alasdair Pedley and Pippa Carcas.

This competition has an intense programme with the five races taking place on successive days from 17-21 August.  More information can be found here

British Orienteering is excited for the start of this year’s international competition, and by the potential of both these teams for high performance - good luck for the races!

GB Selection Announcement 
GB Selection Announcement